In his newly launched blog, Vanished World, Christian Herrmann provides a report on some of the organized volunteer groups, mainly of students and young people, that come to Ukraine (and elsewhere) each summer to help clear up Jewish cemeteries. … continue reading →
The Los Angeles Jewish Journal writes about a collaboration between the MACEVA project and middle school students in Lithuania and eight-graders at the Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School near Los Angeles to document and translate Jewish tombstones from the Jewish cemetery in … continue reading →
The precious Sarajevo Haggadah will stay in Bosnia — at least for the foreseeable future — despite an offer from the Metropolitan Museum in New York to display it on long-term loan Jakov Finci, the president of the Bosnian … continue reading →
The Auschwitz Jewish Center in Oswiecim, Poland (the town outside of which the Auschwitz camp was built) has issued an appeal for funds to shore up a retaining wall of the Chevra Lomdei Mishnayot synagogue. The synagogue, the only surviving synagogue … continue reading →
Celebrations Jan. 27 marked the 75th anniversary of the magnificent Kadoorie Mekor Chaim Synagogue in Porto, Portugal, the largest active synagogue in Iberia. About 280 Jewish representatives from the U.S., Israel, the United Kingdom and Argentina attended the ceremonies. In the … continue reading →
